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Boot to application on Raspberry Pi
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Instructions.md

How to boot straight to application, with auto-login, and fluxbox as a window manager

  1. Write the raspbian-jessie-lite image to an SD card
  2. Run apt-get install xorg-server xinit fluxbox
  3. Edit /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected] and add your username to ExecStart like ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a <user name> %I $TERM
  4. Add to bottom of .profile: [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx
  5. Add ~/.xinitrc with:
exec /usr/bin/startfluxbox
  1. Edit ~/.fluxbox/startup and execute your application where it tells you like myapp &
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